>>Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, the Clinton administration believes the president "has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes."<<

What does monitoring Aldrich Ames have to do with whether the president can order a massive monitoring of all calls coming in or out of the US and strongarm the cooperation of the communications corporations for prolonged periods without obtaining judicial or legislative approval or even keeping it secret from them?

How does tracking one suspected spy who was deduced to be the leak compare to a situation where the fundamental check-and-balance system of our govt has been willfully subverted?